6/1/2023 0 Comments Gravity by Jason Chin![]() Can you tell me about the title of the book and what it means? That’s how they get their name.) I do a lot of different storyboards, because at the beginning of a project, I’m constantly revising the text. But the pictures all start with something called a storyboard: a series of thumbnail illustrations. The final paintings are done with watercolor. She took me on a tour of her lab, and I got to see the electron microscopes and how they work. One of the people I talked to is a microscope technician at the University of Vermont. What was your favorite part of the research? Talking to researchers and scientists was an important part of my work. ![]() The first thing I did was try to figure out what small things I’d put in the book, because there are lots of them out there. So it starts with small animals, then goes to the hairs on your body, and then to cells, and then inside of cells, and so on. ![]() The concept of the book is that each time you turn the page, you see something that’s smaller than what’s on the page before. It started as a question: “How small is the smallest thing we know of?” That led to more questions, so I started doing research. “It’s about looking really close at the world around us,” he says, “and the very, very small things we’ve discovered.” Chin spoke with TFK Kid Reporter Sarayu Bhumula. His new book, The Universe in You, explores life under the microscope. ![]()
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